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Consonant: a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable. Contrasted with vowel . • a letter representing a consonant.
Vowel : a speech sound which is produced by comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract, with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction, and which is a unit of the sound system of a language that forms the nucleus of a syllable.
Diphthong: a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves towards another (as in coin , loud , and side ). Often contrasted with monophthong , triphthong . • a digraph representing the sound
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From the OED insert the following:
The pronunciation of “kestrel”:/
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str
l
The main definition of “philology” in English: Love of learning and literature; the branch of knowledge that deals with the historical, linguistic, interpretative, and critical aspects of literature; literary or classical scholarship. Now chiefly U.S.
The etymology of “crow” and look for the translation into Spanish: [ME. croun(e, earlier crun(e, syncopated from coroune, corune, corone, a. AF. coroune, in early ONF. corune, curune (central OF. corone, coronne, in 13th c. couronne) = Pr., Sp., It. corona:
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na
The 11th c. corona in the O.E. Chron. was directly from L. The syncopated crune was used already in the 12th c.; but the fuller form survived beside it to the 16th c.] .
Translation: c ( of monarch ) corona f ( Govt, Law ) the C~ la corona
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